Omen Trees
Between the storms earlier this week and yesterday’s derecho-that-wasn’t, I thought as it has been a while (since Sandy, a whole seven months!) it’s time to take a cruise around the web and find downed trees. Almost as soon as I realized they were all in trouble from trosopheric ozone back in 2008, they began falling down at astonishing rates and often spectacularly onto cars, like this incident in Boston, from 2010:
Reader Amanda left a link in comments about a branch that fell in New York’s Central Park, leaving an Indiana tourist critically injured with a broken arm and teeth. She said she was surprised at the rest of the article indicating this sort of thing is a rather frequent, which is understandable, since not so long ago it didn’t used to be – in fact it was practically unheard of!
The aforementioned Mr. Croft posted this closeup photo to the Park Advocates website, in which it is clear that the broken branch has splitting bark along the lower right side, below the break – and in fact so does the smaller branch on the left. When they’re not suing the city, New Yorkers often express outrage that the Parks Department is not preventing such mishaps, but since all the trees are in various stages of acute decay, the only way Parks could do so would be to remove the trees altogether. Of course, it may come to that. Horrific as that list of injuries and death is, it obviously represents only the tiniest proportion of all falling trees and branches, the vast majority of which fall on property instead of people – like this willow in November of 2009, which landed harmlessly in the pool at Central Park:
This is a photo of the base from another article about the incident. The bark looks badly corroded but not nearly as bad as the high branches.
Officials believe Monday’s heavy rains turned the soil underneath the tree to mud, leaving unstable ground among the roots:
“The tree uprooted, even though other trees around it are doing fine for whatever reason,” says Jamie Bartalon, the landscape and forestry supervisor for the Arlington County Department of Parks and Recreation.
That unpredictability makes this year’s severe storms more dangerous. Even if there’s little wind, experts can’t see the soil shifting underground.
“There’s really no way to know for sure,” says Bartalon. “The best thing to do is to take preventative action.”
More storms are expected to roll in Wednesday night. Rain will soak the region Thursday, making trees swaying in the sunshine look more like omens of more damage to come.
Omens of more damage to come? Since when did trees become apocolyptic omens? This failure is being blamed on a tornado, never mind the hollow branch, interior rot and flaking bark:
“Cleanup begins following severe storms” reports NBC Washington:
No word on why a once-in-30-years event would have knocked over millions of trees, since at that rate, after 200 years, there wouldn’t be any left (and let’s not add in Irene and Sandy, neither of which had unprecedented winds). Also left unexplained was why one of the worst tragedies to occur was earlier, on Monday, when the wind was gusting up to only 30 mph.
A teenage boy was pedalling home through a park in Chevy Chase as a storm moved in Monday night. When he never arrived his father reported him as missing and then went searching himself. He discovered his son, hit by a tree, on Tuesday. A news team followed a distraught neighbor to the site. Here’s a screenshot of the tree that fell on the boy. They call it a “weather-related death” even though it’s obviously a “dead-tree-related death”.
Even easier to find are reader uploads of photos showing rotted trees, like this one from a North Carolina story that reads:
Almost inevitably, when there is a closeup of branches they are plastered with lichen.
Storm blows through Triangle knocking down trees, powerlines
“DURHAM—All across the Triangle there were reports of trees down and power outages. On Alston Avenue in Durham, a large tree split in half and fell on two homes. Around 7:30 p.m., Durham urban forestry crews came out and started cutting up the tree to haul it away. Neighbors say no one was injured when the tree came crashing down and one of the homes is vacant. Durham Police say there were at least two other trees that also fell on houses in the Bull City. Several trees fell across streets and on power lines. There was even a brush fire attributed to the storm. Residents say the strongest winds came before the rain, when people were still out trying to take shelter. “It was a lady walking down the road. It nearly fell on her. She had to take off running. It was dangerous. I’m glad nobody got hurt,” said witness Joseph Brown. It was a similar scene in Chapel Hill, with trees taking down power lines, blocking roads, and falling on cars. There was a report of a tree falling on a person in front of a sorority house on Franklin Street. Police have not released that person’s condition. However with the storm blowing through right at rush hour, people said they are lucky most of the damage was relatively minor and more people did not get hurt.”
Apparently people who take pictures like this one, from Maryland, are unaware that a tree with a center so discolored is comparable to a person riddled with cancer.
It perplexes me that people don’t understand there is something wrong with all these trees. The photo above is from the tenth of June, and the next is from Ohio.
Just to make clear how bizarrely delusional people are, here’s a photo from 2012 in Detroit, with the caption below…and no, I’m not making this up!
A powerful storm Wednesday split this healthy tree in Detroit’s Palmer Woods neighborhood. (Credit: WJBK | myFOXDetroit.com)
More examples of rotting interiors. I know, I know – “But, they still have leaves!!”
A splendidly battered truck from the Nofolk area:
Here’s one exhibiting deep delusion in North Carolina, with a caption that reads helpfully: tree that fell in our yard last night.
And, nothing much to see here:
…or, here:
I once heard Chris Hedges say that you can never know exactly what spark, what seemingly minor incident, will ignite the explosion of a revolution. You can know it is inevitable, you can feel the tension in the air – but what precisely sets it into final terrible, irreversible motion can never be predicted. I can’t help feeling impressed that in the current parallel crises – ThreeEs boils them down to Energy, Environment and Empire, while my new friends at RootSimple refer to the “Triple Melange of Misery”, and I usually rather more rudely think of it all as the Tifucta – it would seem to be only fitting if it turns out the place where the parallel lines of revolutionary outrage converge is at a park in Istanbul…and the incidiary point is a tree.
“The unrest erupted on Friday when trees were torn down at a park in Istanbul’s main Taksim Square under government plans” said the Huffington Post.
Occupiers return to Zuccotti Park in Solidarity with Protesters in Turkey June 1, 2013 |
Unfortunately, we are killing forests far more efficiently and widely with air pollution than bulldozers, because the air pollution goes everywhere. No mountain ranges or oceans or lack of roads can halt its spread…but then, whether the flames that are going to engulf the last civilization are fanned from a tree in Turkey, or whether they simmer down and surge up somewhere else, nothing will be beyond their ferocious reach.
June 1, 2013, Lake Hughes, California from WindSpiritKeeper |
With best wishes for good luck to those in the wildfires out west, which are far, far earlier than ever before, in California and now Colorado.
Source: http://witsendnj.blogspot.com/2013/06/omen-trees.html
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